International – Simon

Simon Duffy is the coordinator for Citizen Network International.

Simon has worked with people with intellectual disabilities and their families for over 25 years. His work has focused on the ideal of citizenship and exploring how to advance the power and control people have over their own lives. He started work in 1990 with Southwark Consortium (now Choice Support). In 1996 he founded Inclusion Glasgow to provide personalised support for people leaving institutions. In 2003 he led in Control and helped to establish self-directed support and personal budgets as public policy in England. In 2009 he set up the Centre for Welfare Reform which is an independent think-tank promoting social justice and citizenship in public policy.